Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accuracy on approaches and around the greens that saves strokes and wins tournaments. In women's golf, one of the best short games belongs to 20-year-old Anne Quast of Marysville. Wash., a pretty, dark-eyed Stanford University coed. Last week at the 58th U.S. Amateur championship in Darien, Conn., personable Anne used string-straight approaches and deadeye putts to whip the field...
...women who break sports records. They are pampered and idolized, and, considering their perquisites, they are amateurs only by courtesy. How they behaved outside the stadiums hardly mattered so long as they continued to chalk up a satisfactory quota of victories inside. But last week, as the European championship track and field meet was about to start in Stockholm, Russia's favored athletes found themselves in an unfamiliar kind of trouble...
When Shotputters Galina Zybina and Tamara Tyshkevich, miffed at losing the U.S.S.R. championship to a comparative newcomer, refused to accept their second-and third-prize medals by her side, they were stripped of their right ever to receive the medals, and the elder Zybina was barred from the trip to Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 18). Also barred was Nina Ponoma-reva, the hefty discus thrower who was caught shoplifting in London two years ago. A sort of Maria Callas in a track suit, Nina had made her outbursts of temperament famous. She was accused of being "egotistical and uncomradely." All this...
...veteran starting staff of Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette. Gene Conley, Bob Rush and Bob Buhl would soon put Milwaukee out front. But while the Yankees ran off and out of reach of the rest of the American League by late May. the Braves bumbled along into August without showing championship form. After a fine start, Spahn ran into a temporary slump. Burdette could not manage to win consistently. Conley has yet to win a game. Rush did not finish a game in twelve straight starts. Buhl came up with a shoulder injury, has not pitched since May 13. But Manager...
...Topeka's big outdoor municipal pool, the starter's gun barked for the 100-meter freestyle in the National A.A.U.'s Senior Women's swimming championship. Six of the U.S.'s best women swimmers soared off the pool's edge in flat trajectory and smacked into the water. By the time they turned at the far end of the 50-meter pool, a tall, 14-year-old blonde held the lead, increased it with each powerful stroke, finished well out in front. Susan Christine ("call me Chris") von Saltza had done...